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1) Bibliography of Pragmatics Online
2 Handbook of Pragmatics Online
3) Translation Studies Bibliography
4) Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy Online

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1) Bibliography of Pragmatics Online – The basic tool for students and researchers interested in language in use
Linguistic Pragmatics is characterized by its continuous worldwide development into an extremely productive, innovative and intriguing research area within language studies.

The Bibliography of Pragmatics Online explores the entire range of topics that cover this interdisciplinary yet coherent academic field. It covers topics from traditions that belong or have contributed to pragmatics in substantial ways (from accommodation theory, analytical philosophy and anthropological linguistics, to cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, literary pragmatics, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, relevance theory, sociolinguistics, speech act theory, and universal and transcendental pragmatics, to name just a few).

The latest annual release (early 2008) of the Bibliography of Pragmatics Online is now available, increasing the number of records to over 42,000 and including a thesaurus!

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The bibliography is available on a subscription basis, with stand-alone or site licenses.

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2) Handbook of Pragmatics Online – The basic reference for students and researchers interested in language in use
Linguistic Pragmatics is characterized by its continuous worldwide development into an extremely productive, innovative and intriguing research area within language studies.

The Handbook of Pragmatics Online explores the entire range of topics that cover this interdisciplinary yet coherent academic field, presenting to you the Handbook of Pragmatics Online.

The Handbook of Pragmatics provides up-to-date information on research in the field of linguistic pragmatics, conceived as the interdisciplinary (cognitive, social, and cultural) science of natural language use.

This electronic encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updatable source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The Handbook of Pragmatics Online is variously searchable and flexible to meet the needs of both beginners and established scholars in the field.

It consists of topical articles (from anaphora and bilingualism to codeswitching, cohesion, discourse markers, implicitness, mass media, negation, social institutions, and terms of address) and brief biographies of eminent scholars (such as Austin, Bühler, Grice, Morris, Sapir).

In addition, it offers an extensive overview of research traditions that belong or have contributed to pragmatics (from accommodation theory, analytical philosophy and anthropological linguistics, to cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, literary pragmatics, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, relevance theory, sociolinguistics, speech act theory, and universal and transcendental pragmatics, to name just a few), of research methods (from contrastive analysis and corpus analysis to ethnography, experimentation, logical analysis, statistics, and taxonomy), and of notation systems (from formal semantics to transcription systems for spoken discourse).

The index is analysis-driven: it is not so much based on words and phrases that occur literally in the contributions to the Handbook; rather, it provides a conceptual road map with extensive cross-referencing. This index parallels the one for the Bibliography of Pragmatics Online and will be made fully compatible with it at a later stage.

The Handbook of Pragmatics has been available online since 2003 and will continue to be expanded and revised annually.

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3) Translation Studies Bibliography – The indispensable reference works for translating and interpreting studies
Translation and Interpreting (T&I) Studies comprises the young discipline dealing with transfer and mediation, containing aspects of intra- and interlingual translation, intercultural communication, adaptation, interpreting, localization, multimedia translation, language mediation, terminology and documentation.

In recent years, T&I Studies has demonstrated that it is ready for its establishment as a mature academic discipline.

The latest release (2005), now with more than 14,000 annotated records, is available. The bibliography is enhanced by a thesaurus.

The Translation Studies Bibliography is

Comprehensive:
covering the whole range of publications in T&I studies, with no national regional, cultural or thematic restrictions;
including journal articles, monographs, collective volumes and their individual articles, reviews, dissertations and unpublished manuscripts;
covering both the most recent publications as well as adding coverage backwards in time to the beginning of modern translation studies.

Interdisciplinary: considering relevant publications in T&I Studies as well as in other fields such as Linguistics, Literary Studies, Sociology, Ethnology, and Natural and Applied Sciences.
Extensive: containing nearly 10,000 annotated records to be updated and supplemented annually.
Objective: providing an exhaustive overview of the research field and giving descriptive, non-evaluative abstracts for the majority of the publications included.
A Research Instrument: categorizing all records through a keyword system, based on a newly developed and detailed conceptual tree, which marks off the bibliography’s boundaries from other disciplines; which structures and homogenizes the extensive list of keywords; and which offers a conceptual/terminological guideline for the abstracts.
A Search Instrument: offering a range of options for easy searching and smooth navigation through an advanced and stylized application, in which among other things records of reviews, translations and reprints are linked to the record of the original publication.
Online: available as a stand-alone or a site license subscription and also offering free access for three months.

The bibliography is available on a subscription basis, with stand-alone or site licenses.

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4) Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy Online – The interdisciplinary resource on figurative language
The Bibliography of Metaphor & Metonymy is a major source of information for anyone interested in metaphor, metonymy, and other figurative language. It covers monographs, edited volumes, articles from volumes and journals, dissertations, proceedings, working papers, unpublished works and conference papers, starting from 1990.

Metaphor and metonymy play an important role in language use in everyday life and communication. Their study is by nature interdisciplinary. This instrument is therefore relevant to a broad audience, including (but not limited to) those working in linguistics, anthropology, cross-cultural studies, communication studies, lexicology, pragmatics and discourse, rhetoric, stylistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, translation studies, literary studies, cognitive sciences.

MetBib strives to cover the whole range of publications on the topic, including articles, books, and electronic resources, from a wide variety of countries and languages.

Each publication has a full bibliographic description and keywords, and many have abstracts. The current release includes data from 1990 until 2007, and contains over 7500 records.

The bibliography will be updated annually.

This on-line bibliography has a range of options for easy searching and smooth navigation through an advanced and stylized application, with which users of Benjamin's Translation Studies Bibliography and Bibliography of Pragmatics are already familiar.

The bibliography is available on a subscription basis, with stand-alone or site licenses.

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